Executing an external program from a perl scrip.

2005-12-05 Thread Alejandro Santillan
Trying to migrate a perl script from linux to windows (IIS), I need to execute a command line from within the perl script. This snippet worked fine in linux (provided the path is correct), but it didn't work in windows: $sys=C:/antiword/antiword.exe -t -w 1 document.doc

RE: Executing an external program from a perl scrip.

2005-12-05 Thread John Serink
-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Executing an external program from a perl scrip. Trying to migrate a perl script from linux to windows (IIS), I need to execute a command line from within the perl script. This snippet worked fine in linux (provided the path is correct), but it didn't

Re: Executing an external program from a perl scrip.

2005-12-05 Thread Chris Wagner
At 04:02 PM 12/5/2005 -0300, Alejandro Santillan wrote: Trying to migrate a perl script from linux to windows (IIS), I need to execute a command line from within the perl script. This snippet worked fine in linux (provided the path is correct), but it didn't work in windows: That sounds very much